Systemic complementarities and transformative change: A tentative methodology to examine bidirectionality effects across connected systems [Resumo]

Padua, Muriela; Fontes, Margarida

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Padua, Muriela

Fontes, Margarida

Abstract(s)

ABSTRACT: Achieving energy-sustainable goals involves large-scale production and social changes necessary to fulfil societal functions (Geels, 2004; Markard, 2011). These long-term goals imply a transformative change requiring multiple transitions involving multiple socio-technical systems and their interplay (Raven and Verbong, 2007; Geels, 2007; Papachristos, 2013; Rosenbloom, 2020). To fully address system change, it is necessary to consider that changes in one system affect the other (Geels, 2007; Papachristos, 2013), i.e., the presence of bidirectionality in system interactions. However, bidirectionality has only recently started being tackled and remains under-conceptualized.

Keywords

Sustainability Energy transition Sustainability transition Socioeconomic transformation

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/6047

Citation

Padua, M. & Fontes, M. (2025). Systemic complementarities and transformative change: A tentative methodology to examine bidirectionality effects across connected systems. In: Book of Abstracts IST 2025: 16th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, 24-26 June 2025, Lisbon, pp. 744-745